Thanks for the tip Kalyptos. I'll try the dryer sheet idea. Heheh, maybe it'll help me to smell fresh after a round of rummaging about in my garden. I'm just about all healed up after the "two weeks of misery". It was EXACTLY that. I mean the itching kept me up at night. I was running around town looking like a pink polka-dotted monster from all the dabs of calamine lotion. I'm due to turn my compost pile again so hopefully the dryer sheets work.